Family life in China

1. The chinese family : enduring ideals and changing realities

2. Kinship, friends and the multigenerational family

3. Chinese families : ethnic variations

4. Courtship and marriage : twentieth-century transformations

5. The preference for the affection-based marriage

6. Parenting philosophy and practice

7. Parents, adolescents, and emerging adults

Conclusion: intergenerational exceptions and uncertainties.